Australian Teen Charged for Supposedly Attaching Googly Eyes on ‘Blue Blob’ Sculpture

A young person from Australia has faced legal proceedings after allegedly defacing a large blue sculpture of a mythical creature by applying plastic eyes to it.

The 19-year-old, aged 19, appeared via phone at Mount Gambier Magistrates Court in the state of South Australia on that day, charged with a single charge of damaging property.

Officials commented at the moment of the recent event, the municipal authorities said that CCTV footage showed a individual putting artificial eyes on the artwork, which locals have nicknamed the “Cast in Blue”.

Ms Vanderhorst did not enter a plea and informed the judge she was unwell, as reported by media sources, with the judge advising her to secure a legal representative before her upcoming hearing in the final month of the year.

The following day the reported event, the local mayor said that restoration to the much-loved public artwork would be costly as the adhesive eyes could not be detached without damaging the art piece.

“This wilful damage to a cherished public artwork is inappropriate and disrespectful,” Mayor Lynette Martin remarked in mid-September. “It is not harmless fun, it is costly - it is also frustrating to those members of our society who have embraced Cast in Blue.”

She said the local government would seek the “substantial” repair costs from those accountable for the damage.

At the time the artwork was first proposed, it received mixed reactions from the local community due to its price tag and design.

Priced at 136,000 Australian dollars (eighty-nine thousand US dollars; sixty-eight thousand pounds), the artwork depicts a mythical megafauna, with the sculpture’s designers inspired by an prehistoric marsupial ant-eater discovered in local caves that was “huge, slow-moving, and intriguing”.